{"id":10813,"date":"2015-11-09T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T01:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/?p=10813"},"modified":"2016-09-21T12:48:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T02:48:58","slug":"a-week-in-the-life-8-moving-with-linkages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/a-week-in-the-life-8-moving-with-linkages\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week in the Life #8: Moving With Linkages"},"content":{"rendered":"

I teach an introductory course using the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 set. My students are 7th graders who are required to take the course and may not necessarily have any background in programming\/building. My school is on a trimester schedule so the course runs for thirteen weeks at a time. For this particular trimester I have one class of twenty-four students and one class of thirty-four students. I meet each class for one 50-minute period each day, five days a week. I have thirty-four computers in my classroom and one EV3 kit for every two students. I\u2019ve been teaching this class in its current form for two years, though I\u2019ve been teaching Robotics for eight all together.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve been doing my “Move Without Wheels” unit for a few years by now. I think the original idea came from a similarly named unit contained in LEGO Education EV3’s Engineering and Design<\/a> pack which is an add-on software pack you can purchase for the education version of the EV3 software. My basic goal was to get something like this:<\/p>\n